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INFOCOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 1 days ago
Opportunistic Processing and Query of Motion Trajectories in Wireless Sensor Networks
—We study the problem of in-network processing and queries of trajectories of moving targets in a sensor network. The main idea is to exploit the spatial coherence of target traj...
Dengpan Zhou, Jie Gao
DALT
2009
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Declarative and Numerical Analysis of Edge Creation Process in Trust-Based Social Networks
Online social networks are enjoying drastic increase in their population and connectivity. One of the fundamental issues in these networks is trust, which is an essential factor in...
Babak Khosravifar, Jamal Bentahar, Maziar Gomrokch...
PERSUASIVE
2009
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Persuading users through counseling dialogue with a conversational agent
We present an empirical study of the effect of a computer agent designed to engage a user in a persuasive counseling dialogue on attitudes towards regular exercise. We used two ma...
Daniel Schulman, Timothy W. Bickmore
PREMI
2009
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Unsupervised Color Image Segmentation Using Compound Markov Random Field Model
Abstract. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised color image segmentation scheme using homotopy continuation method and Compound Markov Random Field (CMRF) model. The proposed s...
Sucheta Panda, P. K. Nanda
RECSYS
2009
ACM
15 years 12 months ago
Regret-based optimal recommendation sets in conversational recommender systems
Current conversational recommender systems are unable to offer guarantees on the quality of their recommendations due to a lack of principled user utility models. We develop an ap...
Paolo Viappiani, Craig Boutilier